Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's absolutely clear to me that Obama has enormous intrapersonal intelligence. His book, 'Dreams from My Father,' is an amazing book, and… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book,… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
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